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roused from deep slumber. On the tower there is a lack of minute
impressions which in ordinary life teach men to adapt themselves to
everything. All that a light-house keeper comes in contact with is
gigantic, and devoid of definitely outlined forms. The sky is one whole,
the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is
in loneliness. That is a life in which thought is continual meditation,
and out of that meditation nothing rouses the keeper, not even his work.
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form
the only variety. But Skavinski felt more happiness than ever in life
before. He rose with the dawn, took his breakfast, polished the lens,
and then sitting on the balcony gazed into the distance of the water;
and his eyes were never sated with the pictures which he saw before him.
On the enormous turquoise ground of the ocean were to be seen generally
flocks of swollen sails gleaming in the rays of the sun so brightly that
the eyes were blinking before